Quotes about Reform
These are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness . . . —FROM THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL:
— Frank Herbert
Common Core is a big win for education.
— Bill Gates
AFFORESTATION (AFFORESTA'TION) n.s.[from afforest.] The charter de Foresta was to reform the encroachments made in the time of Richard I. and Henry II. who had made new afforestations, and much extended the rigour of the forest laws.Hales'sCommon Law of England.
— Samuel Johnson
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
— John Adams
the Church may exist without any apparent form, and, moreover, that the form is not ascertained by that external splendour which they foolishly admire, but by a very different mark, namely, by the pure preaching of the word of God, and the due administration of the sacraments.
— John Calvin
This election [2016], and I believe this, is our last chance to secure the border, stop illegal immigration and reform our laws to make your life better.
— Donald Trump
Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.
— Ronald Reagan
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
— Bill Gates
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
— Ronald Reagan
Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.
— Hillary Clinton